Lady Choco

We've got two seeds planted in home made soil mix that we use on our farm, both are Chocodope Fem by Victory Seeds. This will be outdoors at high altitude, 6700 feet, in evergreen forest in northeast Arizona. June 30: First seed is up, planted June 26. She'll be called CH1. She looks pretty strong. Once she's had a few days to build some strength, she'll be moved to a different container. July 2: She's growing fast, very vigorous. Moved here into a different six pack with growing soil instead of just the sprouting mix. July 3: The second seed came up, but didn't make it through the night. Very pale and weak looking. Too bad. Drowned from rainfall. Chocodope is a one-plant grow for this season. Darn. July 4: She looks great, already almost an inch tall. July 7: End of Week 1, one inch tall. She's got great color, but the extremely strong Arizona sunlight is slowing growth a little. Giving her some time in the shade each day so she can rest and maybe stretch a little.

July 7: Starting Week 2 looking great. Nice color, good vigor, she loves the high-altitude Arizona sun. July 8: She was ready, so she got a new 4-inch container for a while. Her roots were already filling the six- pack cell so now she can go to the next level. July 11: Growing well, though not especially fast. Good color and good vigor. July 13: She's starting to grow a little faster now.

July 15: She's looking great, nice color, starting to take off again. I think the shade time is helping. Just too small for such hardcore sunlight right now, I think. July 16: So today it was time to water. Had some sprouted seed corn ready to go, made seed sprout tea for all my girls in all three grows. I'm treating the water to correct pH down a point or two with two tablespoons vinegar to a gallon of water. Made five gallons of seed sprout tea using this water. Transplanted her into a one-gallon flowerpot and watered her in with the SST mix. July 18: She's enjoying the new space and seems to love the seed sprout tea. July 21: End of Week 3, she's at 2.25 inches and looks good. Seems happy and vigorous, good color even if she's a bit small. I think the killer Arizona sun at 6700 feet altitude is part of that. A little shade at times will have her reaching a little more. Getting almost time to water again. Will be feeding more corn sprout tea in a couple days.

July 28: Just letting her enjoy life and grow along. Gave her some corn SST a couple days ago. She's starting to respond.

August 4: She's filling in, responding to the seed sprout tea, but still small at this point.

Everything the same. She likes the teas and the sun, but it's hot and bright. So many weeks without enough nutrients. She'll be small. No way around it. Lost season this time. It happens. She's getting better color and there's some activity at the shoot tip, but slow for now. Looks fine, just very small because I didn't pay close enough attention this year.

August 18: She's growing a little faster. Expect her to flower soon. Trying to add a little size. Also put her in a 5-gallon while I still have a chance. Just got some sheep manure tea and corn sprout tea. Temps in the 90s lately sometimes.

She's looking good, starting to get back on track, but lost time from pH incorrect and not enough nitrogen. Slowed her down a lot so she is small. Will have sheep manure tea and corn sprout tea this week. She's going into pre-flower now, and going to start her stretch, at any minute.

She's continuing to improve, growing faster and turning greener. Branch sites are starting to develop, but no signs of pre-flower yet.

She's looking better, growing faster. This one's never going to be very big. Emphasis here is on seeds. Two of the Thai Stick males have begun to produce purple flowers. I have chosen the tall one to pollinate Lady Choco.

She's really filling out now. Getting taller and branching. She started her pre-flower on Saturday, next week will likely be first week of flower. I'm hopeful for two more weeks of accelerated growth with this strain. Circumstances this year forced a very late start to the season. Fed her a special elixir that has really gotten things on track, seed sprout tea blended with compost tea, manure tea and spent coffee grounds soaked in water.

September 22: End of Week 12. She is really starting to come online. SST and compost tea are having an effect at just the right time. Smells great!

September 29: End of Week 13. She's going full blast, smell is awesome. Melon, honey, chocolate, coffee, floral smell overall. I'll let the buds get bigger and hit her with the pollen from the purple flowers on the MSNL Thai Sticks.

October 6: End of Week 14. Flowering stretch is just about done, up to over 10 inches now. She more than tripled height and width over pre-flower size. Smell is incredible, she's starting to frost up and I started her into LST this week.